Pangaea Networks

At the Spring 2010 Comptel PLUS conference in Nashville, TN, Pangaea Networks announced it has launched its PANMetro – Dedicated 10GigE Ring service in Manhattan.  This Multi-Gig service platform enables carriers and end users the ability to deploy multiple Ethernet circuits with capacity greater than 1 GigE on a single port. 

Pangaea Networks is known as a niche provider of Carrier Class Ethernet Local Loop serivices in the New York Metro area.  It specializes in providing scalable and portable Metro Ethernet services in this incredibly dense market.  The company offers its own private and deiversely routed and protected 10 GigE ring to its customers.  The key benefit of this service is Pangaea’s ability to provide its customers the ability to leveragle Ethernet technology for its dedicated local access.  Through its PANMetro Dedicated 10GigE ring service, one deployment provides Pangaea’s custoemrs the abiltiy to access hundresd of customers an dother service providers over their own private network, without the need for additional equipment, power or rack space (colocation) in other facilities.

Below is the press release in its entirety:

Pangaea Networks Launches first-ever Dedicated 10 GigE Ring Service in New York City

 PANMetro Multi-Gig™allows for capacity increments greater than 1 GigE over a single port within a dedicated wireline 10 GigE infrastructure; SLA’s deliver guaranteed QoS and micro-second latency

New York, NY and Nashville, TN USA – March 15, 2010 – Pangaea Networks, a niche provider of Carrier Class Ethernet Local Loop services in the New York City and New Jersey markets, announce the launch of their PANMetro™ Dedicated 10GigE Ring service in Manhattan.  With the Multi-Gig™ service platform, Carriers and end-users can deploy multiple Ethernet circuits with capacities greater than 1 GigE on a single port, over their own private, dedicated, Layer 2, 10 GigE wireline infrastructure. 

“Scalability and portability are the two main drivers behind the PANMetro™ 10 GigE platform,” states Kevin Black, Vice President of Business Development at Pangaea Networks.  “Service providers and end-users with high capacity IP and data traffic require an Ethernet platform that can scale beyond GigE, with the ability to easily load balance traffic between data centers and Meet Me Rooms.”

“By colocating in just one site, PANMetro™ 10 GigE users can now access hundreds of customers and other service providers over their own private, diversely routed, protected 10 GigE ring, without the need for additional rack space and power within those other facilities.”

Pangaea Networks plans to expand the 10 GigE ring service to include 4 primary data centers in New Jersey with service available in the 3^rd Quarter.

PANMetro™ Ethernet service enables nearly any end-customer the ability to leverage Ethernet technology to obtain dedicated local access.  In addition to providing fiber based, high capacity, Carrier Grade Metro Ethernet solutions, Pangaea Networks converts legacy network connections, such as TDM and SONET to Ethernet over a wide area, stretching from Connecticut to Southern New Jersey.  The company provides Ethernet access to over 2,700 enterprise buildings and interconnectivity to nearly all of the New York metro area’s data center and colocation facilities.

About Pangaea:

Pangaea Networks is a pioneer in the deployment of Managed Ethernet services from the Enterprise market to select carrier hotels and data centers.  Pangaea utilizes a combination of Ethernet Network to Network Interfaces (NNIs), leading edge Customer Premise Equipment (CPE) and proprietary dark fiber networks to rapidly provision Metro Ethernet transport solutions to both Carrier and Enterprise customers.

Arbinet Corporation [Nasdaq: ARBX] has deployed Customer Based Routing in its network, providing Arbinet Carrier Service (ACS) customers the ability to select multiple levels of quality on one trunk group. 

This solution provides customers the ability, through one interconnection to Arbinet, to choose differenet levels of quality for their global voice termination traffic to better suit its specific customer requirements.  By offering multiple grades of service over one trunk group, Arbinet’s customers can select premium mobile termination solutions, which offer guaranteed CLI as well as its premium service which provides global quality voice termination solutions.    This provides customers the flexiblity to choose from the highest quality of services for specific routes as well as route traffic across more aggressively priced routes all on a single trunk group. 

This service comes on the heels of the company’s announcement launching its Mobile CLI Premium service – which provides the highest quality mobile voice termination solutions with guaranteed Customer Line Identification (CLI).  Today, Arbinet provides its customers with access to a multitude of voice termination routes from its more than 1,100 suppliers. 

To read the release in its entirety, please continue to read below:

Arbinet Deploys Customer Based Routing in Network

Arbinet Carrier Service Customer can Select Multiple Levels of Quality on One Trunk Group

Nashville, TN, USA – March  15, 2010– Arbinet Corporation [Nasdaq: ARBX], announces today at Comptel’s Spring 2010 Conference and Exposition that it has introduced into its network a new level of routing flexibility for its Arbinet Carrier Services (ACS) customers.  Customer Based Routing^sm enables a service provider or carrier customer to select from multiple grades of service for each destination over a single trunk group.  A carrier can select routes with guaranteed CLI delivery and Mobile Subscriber Roaming Number (MSRN) support from Arbinet’s Premium Mobile routing table for destinations where its customers need the highest quality of service with advanced features.  On the same trunk group, it can choose more aggressively priced routes from Arbinet Quality or Value routing tables for destinations where cost is the most important attribute in route selection.  And if it needs CLI delivery, but not MSRN support, it can select routes from Arbinet’s Premium table. 

 “We set as a goal for ourselves in 2009, to leverage the technology at the core of our voice network and increase the flexibility with which we work with the marketplace,” said Dan Powdermaker, Senior Vice President, Sales & Marketing.  “We launched Carrier Services, a traditional wholesale way of working with customers and suppliers.  Utilizing supply from the more than 1,100 service providers and network operators that are connected to Arbinet’s network, ACS offers a number of grades of service ranging from an aggressively priced wholesale table to a recently announced Premium Mobile table with direct termination to more than 250 fixed and mobile network operators and guaranteed Caller Line Identity (CLI) transmission and delivery to terminating network suppliers.  Customer Based Routing is the latest innovation to be deployed in our network.  It enables our sales team to customize routing for each customer based on the customer’s unique needs.”

Arbinet offers three ways for carriers and service providers to originate and terminate international voice traffic.  Arbinet Carrier Services is a standard wholesale trading product with no fees, a single invoice and rate lock. It uses supplier codes in its wholesale routing plans.  thexchange™ is the industry’s leading marketplace for buying and selling voice communications where customers and suppliers use sophisticated tools to view market data and trade traffic.  PrivateExchange^sm, is an easy to use, low-risk outsourcing approach that enables service providers to create virtual direct routes and aggregate existing interconnects.

For more information about Arbinet please visit www.arbinet.com or e-mail sales@arbinet.com. 

About Arbinet

Arbinet is a leading provider of international voice and IP solutions to carriers and service providers globally. With more than 1,100 carriers across the world connected to the Arbinet network, Arbinet combines global scale with sophisticated platform intelligence, call routing and industry leading credit management and settlement capabilities. Customers and suppliers include many leading fixed line, mobile, wholesale and VoIP carriers as well as calling card, ISPs and content providers around the world who buy and sell voice and IP telecommunications capacity and content.

Forward-Looking Statements

This press release may contain forward-looking statements, including forward-looking statements regarding anticipated future revenues, growth, capital expenditures, management’s future expansion plans, expected product and service developments or enhancements, discussions of strategy, and future operating results. Such forward-looking statements may be identified by, among other things, the use of forward-looking terminology such as: “believes,” expects,” “intends,” “may,” “will,” “should”” “confident,” “work to,” “seeks,” or “anticipates,” or the negative thereof or other variations thereon or comparable terminology, or by discussions of strategy. Various risks and uncertainties may cause Arbinet’s actual results to differ materially from those express or implied in such forward-looking statements. Please refer to Part I, Item 1A of the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 16, 2009, and other filings that have been filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission for a description of the risks and uncertainties that Arbinet faces. Arbinet assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise and such statements are current only as of the date they are made.

Allied Fiber is a unique company.  It is building a dark fiber network that will provide connectivity, ample bandwidth and offer a unique backhaul solution to solve carriers’ critical transport issues.  The company has just published a paper titled ‘Allied Fiber Helps Bring Fiber to the Tower – Your Tower’ illustrating how its network  design allows for intermediate access points along its fiber route to offer wireless towers easy ‘on and off ramps’ to the wireline infrastructure.

Below are highlights of the key benefits Allied Fiber offers Tower Operators:

 Allied Fiber will work with the tower operator and/or the mobile wireless service providers to identify the towers that require fiber for Ethernet transport services along the Allied Fiber route

 With this information, Allied Fiber will identify optimal locations for handholes to be placed on the short-haul duct where lateral ducts can be built to reach the towers

 This information can be provided to the Ethernet transport provider vendors that supply services to the mobile operators so that they can determine which towers they would like to build as extensions off of the Allied Fiber route

Tower Operator Benefits

 Solve the Ethernet backhaul issue

 Keep mobile operator tenants on the tower

 Attract new tenants

 Support justification for increased lease rates

For the complete Tower Operator Benefits – please email info@alliedfiber.com

Sitting strong among the world’s largest global backbone providers, Tinet’s IP backbone ranks sixth among the top 15.  The top 15 in order of rank include:  Sprint, Level 3, Global Crossing, Savvis, TeliaNet, Tinet,NTT, MCI/Verizon Business, TATA, AT&T, Telecom Italia, Qwest, Cogent, Cable & Wireless and PCCW.  This is a tremendously strong position for the Italian HQ company.  It was less than a year ago that Tinet was bought by BS Private Equity and separated from its former parent Tiscali.  The year has proved Tinet a success as it continues to climb the rankings charts.

In February, MDB Capital Group LLC announced its ‘Best and Brightest’ list of 160 innovation leaders for the 1st Annual Bright Lights Conference to be held May 10-12 at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco – which includes Arbinet Corporation.  The conference will host institutional investors from several countries as well as IP thought leaders for this conference which is to focus exclusively on companies with disruptive and market changing IP.

The conference will showcase the untold IP stories of 50 public companies ranking in the 90th percentile for technology leadership from over 1,600 small cap companies with U.S. patents granted.  For Arbinet to be considered part of this elite group is indeed an honor.

Arbinet’s IP Solutions have not always been the company’s lead products to the market.  Its voice solutions, servicing over 1100 global providers is the company’s most popular services in the market consisting of Carrier Services (ACS), PrivateExchange and itsthexchange solutions – which all provide flexible and innovative global voice termination solutions to the market.  However, Arbinet’s IP Solutions group also provides flexible and innovative services, albeit in the form of IP.

Arbinet’s IP Solutions provide three different products to the market:  traditional peering (SelectIP), IP transit multihoming (PrimeIP) and its Optimized Internet service – OptimizedIP - which provides the best routing table among multiple providers with one connect.  The commonality between Arbinet’s Voice and IP services are that they offer the market one connection to many providers.  In addition to Arbinet’s IP Solutions, the company also provides VoIP connectivity to its leading voice exchange, enabling IP buyers the ability to send their voice traffic to thexchange for global voice termination without having to convert technology from VoIP to TDM and vice versa.

To espouse all of the benefits of Arbinet’s solutions in this one blog would not do the company justice – contact sales@arbinet.com or datasales@arbinet.com or visit www.arbinet.com – you’ll learn something new, I promise.

Jaymie Scotto & Associates (JS&A) the premier, full-service public relations and marketing firm for the telecommunications industry, announces the launch of its new Events and Webinars division to be spearheaded by Lauren Sauer.  The division will launch its ‘power networking’ event series, with its first event taking place in NYC on April 29^th, 2010.  

Lauren has been hard at work with vendors, structuring the program and identifying key benefits for the telecom industry – particularly through networking, knowledge share and educational opportunities.  In addition to the Events and Webinars, Lauren is also undertaking the development of a newsletter that will specifically target the Telecom industry, providing information about events, publications, announcements and overall industry opportunities. 

 The quarterly “power networking events” will be powered by JS&A’s sister company, DealCenter.  Structured as a three-hour, 200-person event, this networking opportunity will be unlike any other in the industry.  Participants will log into the online meeting system and pre-schedule 20-minute meetings, and arrive on-site, ready for “power networking”.  JS&A will also provide a media match-up for its clients before the event, to further promote its clients’ latest news announcements.

For more information on any of these initiatives, clients or JS&A, please email pr@jaymiescotto.com or go to http://www.jaymiescotto.com/event.php.

TELEHOUSE America held its Q’1 2010 Breakfast on Broadway (BoB) event on February 25^th.  Though there was a snow storm in New York City that day, attendance was terrific.   Three companies presented at the event, including TELEHOUSE America, AboveNet and Digital Edge – each company had strong messages and interesting data to ponder.

TELEHOUSE’s Fred Cannone, the company’s Director of Sales and Marketing, discussed how data center demand is outpacing supply.  There continues to be a limited number of multi-tenant data centers that can accommodate companies looking for cost-effective access to an eco-system of service providers that can offer high bandwidth solutions. 

In 2009, the company announced its interconnection solution through its Ethernet Private Line service, Global InterLink, a service that has the capability of connecting TELEHOUSE’s 37 global data centers while also providing access to other major data center hubs.  This solution provides companies a tremendous amount of benefits, including cloud computing.  TELEHOUSE calls this solution Data Center as a Cloud^TM.(DCaaC).  Their DCaaC solution provides companies with Total Managed Network Services through its data center and colocation footprint through their Internet exchanges in New York (NYIIX) and Los Angeles (LAIIX) as well as global Ethernet private line connectivity and a full suite of Manage-E solutions including on-site support, data back-up solutions, business continuity planning and more.

Key customer examples of the types of companies leveraging the DCaaC solution include Global Financial firms, Post Production houses and Law firms.  Each company requires a unique footprint, but all grounded on similar solutions; Dedicated Data Center Suites, Global Interlink – private line connectivity, Managed Services, IP Transit all in multiple locations across multiple continents.  This is TELEHOUSE’s specialty – a complete Total Solution Provider.

AboveNet’s Doug Turz presented next on high-bandwidth Ethernet trends and solutions.  AboveNet considers anything above 100 Mbps to be high-bandwidth (I say that’s certainly fair).  The company provides solutions to enterprise buildings and data centers serving companies that require bandwidth flexibility, convergence and low latency. 

The company is seeing a push toward more video, which of course uses more bandwidth.  Another trend that AboveNet sees, being a data center neutral provider, is there are more companies than just financial firms concerned with latency.  The healthcare industry is building out their network infrastructures with low latency bandwidth solutions.   Unlike the Financial industry that associates each millisecond with the loss of tens of thousands of dollars, it’s harder to put an actual figure associated with network latency when considering the healthcare industry, but it could certainly lead to a life or death situation.

The final presenting company was Digital Edge.  Digital Edge provided us with a special presentation, given by its client the March of Dimes.  Digital Edge provides consulting and virtualization implementation solutions.  For the March of Dimes, a company that relies on donations and fundraising programs that primarily uses the Internet it was important to be assured 100% uptime, since downtime equals lost donations – lost income and of course the company’s inability to aid the children they support. 

At any given moment the March of Dimes’ network could have up to 13,000 concurrent sessions – per second.   Digital Edge designed its network to ensure uptime – at the same time the company’s design did not fall prey to complete virtualization.  Scalability was a key driver for the design as the number of simultaneous virtual instances could be high – and had high processing requirements. 

As Digital Edge put it ‘you need a strategy.’  Companies need to know what to virtualize versus not and to understand the security associated with any network architecture.  When working with high performance solutions that require precise tuning, virtualization is not the answer.   In addition – if you require high security for your applications and services, virtualization will not suffice.

Digital Edge’s years of experience has indentified holes in a variety of software solutions developed by MicroSoft, Zen, VMware and more.  To have a company like Digital Edge consulting, designing and implementing your network solutions will certainly guarantee efficiency for the data you are transmitting.

For more information about these companies or to view their presentations, please click on these links.

TELEHOUSE America:  Data Center Market & TELEHOUSE Advantage

AboveNet: Low Latency Data Center Connectivity Bandwidth Flexibility

Digital Edge: The Intelligence Behind The Technology

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If you want to find the best-of-the-best in Twitter check out Listorious which publishes Twitter Lists featuring the top people and their posts on any given topic. So whether you are looking for the Top 50 Funny Twitterers or Twitter’s Top Travel gurus you can find it quickly on Listorious. Today we are zeroing in on the Tops in Technology with a special mention for Ilissa Miller, Managing Partner at Jaymie Scotto & Associates. Ilissa recently made Listorious’ Women in Telecom Twitter list. To check out Ilissa’s tweets follow her on Twitter!

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In the wake of the earthquake that has devastated CHILE, QT Talk, a VoIP calling solutions provider is offering $5.00 of free calls to CHILE for anyone who needs to reach friends, families and loved ones in the region.

To take advantage of this offer simply Text CHILE to 64842 – an access number will be provided.

QT Talk provides an alternative solution to traditional calling cards -without the cards.  Using ANI recognition, the company provides uers the ability to make local and International calls from their landline or cell phone without the use of a pin. 

The company’s website www.purosminutos.com or www.pureminutes.com provides more information about the service.

The original announcement is below:

QT TALK OFFERS FREE CALLING TO CHILE IN RESPONSE TO EARTHQUAKE

 Text CHILE to 64842 to Receive Free Calls

New York, NY – March 4, 2010 – QT Talk a VoIP calling solutions provider announces today that in response to the recent Chilean earthquake, it is offering $5.00 in free calling to Chile in order to help friends and relatives connect with their loved ones.

“Our core goal at QT Talk is to connect communities,” states Gary Lane, VP of Sales and Business Development at QT Talk.  “We were devastated to hear about this catastrophe that has plagued the people of Chile, and immediately wanted to offer our assistance to provide this service, for free, to anyone who needs to call Chile.”

QT Talk’s PurosMinutos, a flexible international calling solution designed to save customers time and money, provides easy international calling capabilities from any phone, including cell phones. With no hidden fees, commitments, expiration dates, or the need to change carriers, PurosMinutos allows customers to place calls without the hassle of cards or PINs. By simply dialing its toll free number from any landline or cell phone, PurosMinutos enables customers to make important calls at reduced rates.

To take advantage of this offer, please text CHILE to 64842 and instantly receive $5.00 to call anyone in Chile.

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About QT Talk:

QT Talk provides smart VoIP calling solutions for Residential, Business and Mobile Services. The company provides flexible and affordable calling plans delivered through its Hosted VoIP platform, residential IP connectivity, business Internet and Mobile devices, replacing traditional telephone service, international calling plans and calling card programs. QT Talk services can be bought from a number of retail outlets, leading telephony consultants and directly by contacting 212-461-3669 or visit www.PurosMinutos.com. 

Esat Sezer, the CIO of Coca-Cola Enterprises was recently interviewed by Meet The Boss TV.  More than just a ‘shelf replenishment company,’ the company has over 70,000 employees of which over 50% are mobile.  Esat had quite a few challenges to overcome in order to transition the business and implement technology to support the company’s mobility and transportation leveraging Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). 

Coca-Cola is one of the largest global companies, and with more than 50% of its workforce mobile the company had quite a few challenges to overcome.  Imagine tracking employees, locations, equipment, deliveries, replenishment, and more.  It is this day and age that enables a global company of this nature know what they have and how they can deliver it.  Technology, communications, telecommunications, IP solutions, applications and more are the embodiment of a successful business enablement strategy.

To watch the complete interview, please click here or on the photo capture below.